'Bullets Over Broadway': Backstage With a Diva

4/3/2014 4:16PM

Marin Mazzie won the role of the most narcissistic, delusional, and drunk broad on Broadway: Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway". Her colleagues say it couldn’t have gone to a more deserving person, because Ms. Mazzie is nothing the character she plays. Photo Serino/Coyne

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